Keep Shopify collections sorted on a schedule

Siftori’s scheduled sorting re-applies your sorting rules on a schedule, so your Shopify collections stay in order as products change. Sorting is paused when you first install: nothing sorts on a schedule until you turn it on.

How to turn on scheduled sorting

1. On the main page, switch on Sort collections on a schedule under Scheduled sorting. This is the master switch for the whole store. Switching it off pauses every scheduled sort.
2. Pick a Sort frequency under Sort schedule: every hour, every 3, 6, or 12 hours, every day, every 2 days, or every week. The page shows when the next sort is due.
3. Each collection row has its own On schedule switch, so you can keep hand-managed collections out of the schedule.

The app warns you when a step is missing, for example when scheduled sorting is on but no collection is set to sort on a schedule yet, so a schedule that would do nothing never runs silently.

When do scheduled sorts run?

Siftori runs scheduled sorts at fixed intervals in UTC, and a due sort starts within about five minutes of its slot. In detail:

• The schedule is an interval, not a time of day, and it does not follow your store’s timezone: “Every day” does not mean midnight where you are. It runs around midnight UTC, and “Every 6 hours” runs around 00:00, 06:00, 12:00, and 18:00 UTC.
• Before every sort, Siftori refreshes product data from Shopify, so the sort uses current inventory and prices.
• Sorts run on the schedule only. A product selling out, restocking, or joining the collection does not trigger an immediate sort; the change is picked up at the next run. Use Apply Sort to react right away.

How to sort a collection manually

Apply Sort on a collection page sorts that collection immediately. It works even while scheduled sorting is off, and regardless of the collection’s own schedule switch. Most collections finish in seconds. A very large one can take a few minutes, and the app tells you if it’s still processing.